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         A person who is deaf when he is born is usually dumb (哑的) as well. There may be nothing wrong
    with his mouth and tongue, but he cannot speak. This is because he cannot hear people, so he has
    nothing to imitate (模仿). He may try to make sounds himself, but cannot hear his own voice. However,
    even though he finds it difficult to speak and cannot hear, he can learn to read. Nowadays such persons
    can also be taught to speak because we have modern methods and equipment, but we did not have these
    when Helen Keller was born.
         Even with modern methods and equipment, however, it is not easy for deaf children to learn to speak,
    though most of them succeed. When a child is deaf and blind as well, it becomes much more difficult,
    though it is possible. Helen Keller was born in 1880. She became very ill at the age of nineteen months.
    Medical knowledge was not as great then as it is now. She did not die but lost her sight and hearing. As
    a result, she became dumb as well. Her parents did their best to teach her, but she couldn't speak by the
    age of six.
         Then, in 1887, a teacher, Miss Sullivan, came to live with her. Miss Sullivan herself had been blind.
    She had been partly cured. Though she could not see very well, she was not blind. Helen was a difficult
    pupil at first, but in a month Helen had learned how to understand signs and how to make them herself.
         At last in spite of her great difficulties, Helen learned to read, write and speak, even though she was
    deaf and blind. She even went to college and had full education. She wrote many books, and though other
    people have written books about her, her own books are the ones that best explain how it feels to be deaf,
    dumb and blind. Her best book is The Story of My Life. Perhaps you have read it. Though it was written
    in 1902, it is still a very interesting book. Even if you have not read it, you may have heard of Helen Keller.
    1. A person who is deaf at birth is also dumb because ______.
    A. there's something wrong with his mouth and tongue
    B. he cannot hear other people and he has nothing to imitate
    C. he doesn't like to speak
    D. he cannot hear his own voice
    2. Deaf and dumb children can be taught to speak nowadays because _____.
    A. we have modern methods and equipment
    B. these children are eager to learn to speak
    C. they can hear something
    D. they have grown up
    3. When Helen was nineteen months old, _____.
    A. she died of illness
    B. she was healthy
    C. she was very ill
    D. she began to learn to speak
    4. How long did it take Keller to understand signs? 
    A. A few days.
    B. Several years.
    C. A moment.
    D. A month.

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                                                                         A Gift of God
         One fine summer morning-it was the beginning of harvest, I remember-Mr. Earnshaw came
    down stairs, dressed for a journey; after he had told Joseph what was to be done during the day,
    he turned to Hindley and Cathy, and me-for I sat eating my porridge with them-and speaking to
    his son, he said:
        "Now, I'm going to Liverpool today. What shall I bring you? You may choose what you like;
    only small things, for I shall walk there and back; sixty miles each way, that is a long time!"
         Hindley named a fiddle (a kind of violin), and then he asked Miss Cathy. She was hardly six
    years old, but she could ride any horse in the stable. She chose a whip(鞭子).He did not forget
    me; for he had a kind heart, though he was rather serious sometimes. He promised to bring me
    a pocketful of apples and pears. Then he kissed his children good-bye and set off.
         The three days of his absence seemed a long while to us all. Mrs. Earnshaw expected him by
    supper-time on the third evening. She put off the meal hour after hour. There were no signs of his
    coming, however. About eleven o'clock the door opened and in stepped the master. He threw
    himself into a chair, laughing and groaning, and told them all to stand off, for he was nearly killed.
    He would never again have another such walk for whatever reasons.
         Opening his great coat, which he held bundled up in his arms, he said: "See here, wife. I was
    never so beaten with anything in my life. But you must take it as a gift of God though it's as dark
    almost as if it came from the devil."
         We crowded round him. And over Miss Cathy's head, I had a look at a dirty, ragged, black-haired
    child-big enough both to walk and talk-yet, when it was set on its feet, it only stared round, and
    repeated over and over again some strange words that nobody could understand. I was frightened,
    and Mrs. Earnshaw was ready to throw it out of doors. She did get angry, asking why he should have
    brought that gipsy child into the house when they had their own kids to feed and look after? What he
    meant to do with it?
       The master tried to explain the matter though he was really half dead with tiredness. All that I could
    make out, among her scolding, was a story of his seeing it starving, and homeless, and almost dumb
    (哑的) in the streets of Liverpool where he picked it up and inquired for its owner. But not a person
    knew to whom it belonged. He said that as both his money and time was limited, he thought it better
    to take it home with him at once than run into vain expenses there. Anyway he was determined he
    would not leave it as he found it.
       Well, finally Mrs. Earnshaw calmed down, and Mr. Earnshaw told me to wash it, give it clean things,
    and let it sleep with the children.
        Hindley and Cathy then began searching their father's pockets for the presents he had promised
    them. But when Hindley drew out what had been a fiddle, crushed (压坏) to pieces in the great coat,
    he cried loudly. And Cathy, when she learned her father had lost her whip in attending on the stranger,
    showed her feeling by spitting at the gipsy child, earning herself a sound blow from Mr. Earnshaw to
     teach her cleaner manners.
                                                                   (Adapted from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte) 

    1. When did Mr. Earnshaw return home from Liverpool?
    A. By supper time.                    
    B. An hour after the meal time.    
    C. When it was getting dark.            
    D. Not until it was nearly midnight.
    2. Mr. Earnshaw brought the gipsy child back home for the following reasons except that ______  .
    A. he couldn't find the parents of the starving child.
    B. he found that the starving child was a dumb boy.
    C. he couldn't afford to stay longer to look for the child's parents.
    D. he couldn't leave the starving child without anyone caring for it.
    3. It can be inferred from the passage that            .
    A. The title "A Gift of God" refers to something he bought in Liverpool.
    B. Cathy was very disappointed and she turned her anger at her father.  
    C. Mrs. Earnshaw agreed to keep the gipsy child in spite of everything.                  
    D. Hindley was good-humoured even if he didn't get his present.

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    阅读理解

    阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出最佳选项。

    　　I still remembermy hands and my finger - tips still remember! what used to lie in store for us on return to school from holidays. The trees in the schoolyard would be in full of leaves again, and the old leaves would be lying around like a muddy sea of leaves.

    　　“Get that all swept up!” the headmaster would tell us. “I want the whole place cleaned up at once!” There was enough work there, to last for over a week. Especially since the only tools with which we were provided were our hand, our fingers, our nails, “Now see that it's done properly, and be quick about it,” the headmaster would say to the other boys, “or you will have to answer for it!”

    　　So at an order from the older boys we would all line up like peasants about to cut and gather in crops. If the work was not going as quickly as the headmaster expected, the big boys, instead of giving us a helping hand, used to find it simple to beat us with branches pulled from the trees. In order to avoid these blows, we used to bribe (行贿) them with the juicy cakes we used to bring for our midday meal. And if we happened to have any money on us the coins changed hands at once. If we did not do this, the blows were re - doubled. They hit us so hard and with such enjoyment that even a deaf and dumb (哑) person would have realized that we were being beaten not so much to make us work harder, but rather to get us into a state of obeying in which we would be only too glad to give up our food and money.

    　　Sometimes one of us would have the courage to report it to the headmaster. He would of course be very angry, but the punishment he gave the older boys was always small - nothing compared to what they had done to us. And the fact is that however much we explained our situation didn't improve in the slightest. Perhaps we should have let our parents know what was going on, but somehow we never dreamed of doing so; I don't know whether it was loyalty (忠诚) or pride that kept us silent, but I can see now that we were foolish to keep quiet about it, for such beating was completely foreign to our nature.

    1．The writer means ________ by saying “My hands and my finger - tips still remember!”

    [　　]

    A．his hands and finger - tips suffered a lot from the hard work

    B．the school work was too hard for the children

    C．the work used to be finished by his own hands only

    D．his hands proved to be skillful at school work

    2．From the way the headmaster spoken, we can learn that ________.

    [　　]

    A．he was ordering the older boys to do the work at once

    B．he actually expected everyone to join in the work

    C．he didn't care who did the work as long as it was done quickly and properly

    D．he wanted the older boys beat the younger ones so hard

    3．When the younger boys complained to the headmaster about their sufferings, ________.

    [　　]

    A．he decided to give the older boys a lesson

    B．he gave the older boys a suitable punishment

    C．it only made matters worse

    D．it made little difference

    4．It can be learned from the passage by inference that ________.

    [　　]

    A．the headmaster was very unreasonable since he put the older boys in charge of the work

    B．the younger boys were willing to offer their food and money to the old ones

    C．the older boys didn't get any punishment because they had had the whole work finished quickly

    D．the writer seems to feel regret for not having told their parents about their sufferings at school

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